Call for Papers: Consider submitting to the 3rd International Workshop on Big Data, Smart Data and Semantic Technologies, co-located with the INFORMATIK 2017 conference in Chemitz, Germany. The workshop proceedings are to be published in the (electronic) Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI).

The focus of the workshop BDSDST 2017 will be on the potential of Big Data, Smart Data and semantic technologies in different application areas. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners using Big and Smart Data in combination with semantic technologies or planning to enrich existing data processing infrastructures with semantic information.

Another call for papers: the Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions to a special issue on Stream Processing to be edited by Monika Solanki and Jean-Paul Calbimonte. Submissions are due by 1st July 2015.

Streaming systems are complex; apart from correct functionality (which might differ between implementations and vendors) many non-functional aspects can be benchmarked such as memory comsumption, latency, and throughput. For RDF Stream Processing several benchmarks exist, shown as follows. From data stream management, older benchmarks exist which are not specific to RDF data but might be adapted. Some are listed below.